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Note: This unit seems to have been created as infantry, but at some point served heavy artillery guns and became known as the 18th Georgia Heavy Artillery Battalion in many OOBs. I need sources to verify/refute this statement, so take this with a grain of salt.
Muster In: Organized with three companies at Savannah circa March 1862.1
Muster Out: April 9, 18652
Commander(s):
Major William S. Basinger
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Mattoax Bridge | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army3
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Second Offensive Order of Battle: Mattoax Bridge | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army4
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Third Offensive Order of Battle: Mattoax Bridge | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army5
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Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Mattoax Bridge | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army6
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Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Mattoax Bridge | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army7
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- Note: Sommers has this unit in Walker’s Brigade.8
Sixth Offensive Order of Battle:
Mattoax Bridge | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army9
“18th GA Heavy Artillery Bn.”: Unattached | Department of Richmond | Confederate Army10
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Seventh Offensive Order of Battle:
Mattoax Bridge | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army (November 1864)11
Barton’s Command | Department of Richmond | Confederate Army (part of November & December 1864)12,13
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Eighth Offensive Order of Battle:
Barton’s Command | Department of Richmond | Confederate Army (January 1-9, 1865)
Barton’s Command | Lee’s Division | Department of Richmond | Confederate Army (January 9-?, 1865)16
Mattoax Bridge| First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army (late January (?) and February 1865)17,18
Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: Mattoax Bridge| First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army21,22
Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles25:
- Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
- Sayler’s Creek (April 6, 1865)
- Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
Bibliography:
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:
Sources:
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, p. 218 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, p. 218 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 116 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 116 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 125 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 135 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 143 ↩
- Sommers, Richard J. “Grant’s Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship. The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia).” Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1313. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 151 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 152 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 160 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 160 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 169 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 160 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 169 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 178 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 177 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 189 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., pages 177-178 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 189 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 198 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 207 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 198 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 207 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, p. 218 ↩